212 thoughts on “The Six Stages of ‘Becoming Me’ (so far anyway): Part 1”

1. Joel I understand about this ‘something’, it is something most people would resonate with as missing in their lives.

   This statement is so important, ‘it’ is not what you do but the energy you do it in’, was a great reminder that everything we do has to come from a place of integrity. Otherwise it’s going to have a ripple affect on people and something that can’t be seen but certainly felt. And when we come to this realisation, we may choose to work from a different place or continue as we are. It is that simple…

2. This is GOLD: “‘it’ is not what you do but the energy you do it in – even when you’re dealing with energy!”

3. I have always avoided knowing about energy I shut down this most important aspect of living when young as I was ridiculed for talking about energy and the way it affected everyone in my family. I would have reoccurring nightmares of gross energy prowling round the house and coming in through the front door. I have discovered ignoring energy is a false way of living because we are dominated by energy and there are only two sources. I spent most of my life trying to ignore the negative energy only to realise I was neck deep in it! I have at last come to the understanding that what energy we choose has an effect on all that we do ,say and think. That we don’t actually think but align to either negative energy or positive energy, this make complete sense because I became such a negative Nancy. I am now more aligned to the energy of my soul and can feel when I’m not in this energy because to be in negative energy now feels utterly ghastly in my body.

   1. Mary I understand about this negative Nancy and it makes me shudder at the thought, as it was my go to and still do from time to time. It can’t be healthy to live an imbalanced live, whether we sway predominately to the negative or we sway to the positive. I know the energy we need to sway to and that is the soul which is the source of truth, it is that simple.

4. You have raised a very interesting point Elizabeth that all that we do affects not only ourselves but all others too. This asks us to raise the bar on our responsibility to ourselves and others something that we find difficult to do because we have not been taught even the basics of energy. And there is such a resistance that to talk about energy it’s as though your dabbling in witchcraft which not so long ago had consequences of being burnt at the stake, boiled in water or drowned in the village pond.

5. I have noticed that if I get too engrossed in work and leave myself out of the equation then I start to get a sore throat and feel as though I’m going down with a cold. When I stop and bring myself back by reconnecting to me. I can feel how my body prefers this. I am absolutely fascinated by my body and how loudly it converses with me. In the past I always ignored the signals my body gave to me to my own detriment, now I’m all ears.

6. Love never tells us what to do. But love always holds us to help us feel if what we did was loving or not – Joel you have such a way with words that offers inspiration and you have such a practicality in life that is a wonderful combination and gift for us all.

7. Most conventional teachings of energy start and stop with “everything is energy” and they do not distinguish the two types of energy nor do they talk about the after effects in other words how everything is because of energy. This is the real game stopper should we choose to connect to this as Joel so beautifully has.

8. Joel, I love how you have shared that to truly deeply understand this can take quite a while of study and learning to live with it as an understanding: “if everything is energy, everything is because of energy.”

9. I accepted that there was a subtle energetic aspect to life long before I encountered Universal Medicine and was for 18 years prior that meeting a full-time complimentary health student and practitioner. However, It was not until I was presented by Serge Benhayon with the understanding that there are only 2 sources of energy, love or not love, that the contradictions in what I had previously learnt and taught was explained. Understanding and appreciating this completely changed my whole approach to healing and life in general.

10. I love what you share in this blog Joel, simple truths like- Realising there is more to life than just what we see, and choosing to be MORE of ourselves in every moment.

11. It is always important to feel and choose our quality of energy, and how our choices impact this, ‘I began to take responsibility for my life at an energetic level: I chose to ‘feel’ how, or what I was eating, drinking and doing at any given time.’

12. I used the different esoteric modalities (Esoteric Healing, Chakra-puncture, Esoteric Massage etc.) to help me ‘clean up’ the mess of less supportive choices and build this personal responsibility.” I love this line, it highlights how in our essence there is nothing wrong with us, and where the damage to ourselves occurs is in our choices, choices made in disconnection to our essence.

    1. Melinda Knights What I have discovered for myself is that our choices can be so old that it is like being encased in them so that we have lost the connection to know there is a different choice on offer. Serge Benhayon and the Ageless Wisdom teachings not only suggest a different possibility to the choices we constantly make but also supply tools that chip away at the casing that we have built around ourselves, so that there is the possibility of making different choices. In making those different choices we come alive again.

       1. Mary I can relate, those old choices are like a well worn groove, we slot into it and don’t even realise it is not who we truly are, like a costume we continue to wear and forget to take off. I’ve found what can shake me out of that is a reflection of someone showing me there is a different way to be, not to copy ‘a way’, but an inner quality in another that ignited something in me I lost connection to, like joy or grace. This then highlights the behaviours or expressions that are not me as I reconnect to my essence again.

13. “This personal responsibility was not about removing myself from life and making myself so fragile I couldn’t interact with the world, but rather about how to be MORE of me in every moment“ – this is a great point. Saying no to thugs is not about limiting or making our world small, it is about us being more of who we are.

14. By knowing, appreciating and feeling that there are the two energies, love and not love, one can then begin the journey to establishing a life of love, which is to return home to our true way of being.

    1. Yes, we can discard and say ‘no’ to all that is not love, and say ‘yes’ to love, ‘What was most interesting is that I did not end up with a list of different types of energy. There were only two – love, and everything else.’

15. How supportive it is to have a clear gauge in the body that lets us know what is truly working for us. The body is very honest.

    1. We are very blessed to have this barometer constantly letting us know what is true for us and what is not.

16. Simply bringing our awareness to the points you make here can lead to profound changes in life. I find this is an ever deepening process.

    1. Awareness is stage 1 of any change. Hence why we can be so good at bludgeoning our awareness with food, drinks, emotions etc. For we are in fact all deeply sensitive beings and it is this sensitivity that allows the awareness. Should we just allow space for this, life would take off in a different direction…one of love with loving choices.

    2. I agree Victoria Picone, I felt I had made some huge shifts in my understanding and then I was given another piece of the jigsaw of life and realised that on one level I had dealt with the feeling of worthlessness but that there was a deeper splinter of not feeling worthy to go and by just knowing it was there and feeling it, I was able to let it go. It had no hold over me it was like a wisp of mist and when I did let go I could feel my connection to God grow stronger. I do know God and no matter what happened to my physical body in past lives I now know it is impossible to break my connection to God.

17. Why are we not taught about energy and how it affects us? This is really bizarre if we consider that everything we do is energy. It now makes complete sense to me to understand we are huge energy centers. And we give off energy all of the time, we can feel when someone feels angry, sad, happy etc.,
    and yet we dismiss this awareness of our surroundings, why? So what is it about us that we would rather dull ourselves down than to admit we are very aware and feel energy all the time?

18. The testing process is a great math lesson – what plus what results in what? This is our truth, no-one else’s. We can then constantly refine the choices we make and the responsibility we take.

19. We are constantly unpeeling the layers aren’t we?! There is so much wisdom inside us and it asks us to keep things really simple – even though this is 6 years old, we are still discovering layers of how we have walked away from that simple, internal wisdom.

20. Real change cannot just be an individual process, but an individual process in which you locate yourself in life, understand what life is all about and start changing your movements so you increase the level of settlement within your own being.

21. Energy underpins everything, yet in all my various studies no-one clearly states that there are different types of energy and that in fact there’s two forms of energy, love or not love and we need to clearly discern which one we are using, for without that level of clarity there is no true integrity and we are not taking responsibility for who we are and what we bring and that each of us has a love we bring and a love we can connect to which is who we innately are if we choose to connect to that. Before Universal Medicine I never had this understanding, without Universal Medicine I would not have made the deep changes which have utterly changed my life and how I am with myself, I now know in my body when a choice is love and when it is not, and I know what I’m choosing and can feel the consequence of both (no perfection here, but a knowing and understanding of what energy truly is and the choices we can make with it.)

22. At first, realising that we are responsible for the energy we choose can be very challenging and can take time to come to terms with. Especially, when the whole of society says move this way, and we are so programmed to follow. What Serge Benhayon presents is a way out of the stupor we are in and an opportunity to feel true freedom.

    1. Julie I totally agree with you in regards to the stupor we are all living in. I saw this quite clearly the other day. Just watching people as they hung around waiting to go into a building. It was possible to witness the stupor everyone was in and how we gave ourselves over to this energy that has control over us. We are so controlled and yet we live in such a way that we seem to be unaware of it. It was like watching zombies in a horror film, but actually it was happening in real life. Serge Benhayon does offer a way out of the zombie way of life we have all accepted as life. However this false energy is so ingrained within us it will take a while to shift completely but it is starting to shift as we wake up and question the world we have contributed to around us.

23. Having always felt that there was more to life, yet not realising or seeing how the ‘more’ could be lived, I gave up on seeking for the answers in the world as it was clearly reflecting everything that was contrary to the sense I had within. When I came across the presentations of Universal Medicine I instantly felt the re-awakening and confirmation of the deep sense I always had was true, and that the key to living this had always been there through connection to me and my body, the essence of who I am within. I now know that from this point of connection our awareness of what is and what is not true, and of love, becomes clearer and clearer as our choices which are reflected through our bodies reveal the quality of energy we are aligning to at any given moment. There is so much to explore through our connection to our Soul, and life lived from this connection seems only to enrichen and become more purposeful.

24. Coming to the understanding that there are only two types of energy, love or not love, is so simple yet so profound.

    1. I love the simplicity of this understanding as whichever choice of energy is aligned to informs all our choices thereafter. The quality of each being felt clearly in the body.

       1. Yes, from the moment I felt, and therefore knew, the truth of this my life changed as to how I viewed life and made choices.

    2. The depth and profundity of this understanding cannot be underestimated.

25. It is instantly felt when some modalities introduce energy from the lack of truth and apply it for self-gain or manipulation. As there is no evolution, only the change of angle – with no love left only emptiness.

26. Really interesting Joel how you have unfolded a path for yourself through exploring different things, being open to the fact that there is more to life than meets the eye and deepening your relationship to yourself along the way, evaluating choices that didn’t feel a part of the next step. You’ve beautifully expressed that it isn’t about ‘finding ourselves’ but the first step is accepting that we’re part of something very grand, and looking at what gets in the way of this grandness.

27. It is such an important discovery to understand that we can choose which energy is running us in any moment and that not all energy out there is loving. That life does not just happen to us but we are in fact a big player in this with our choices. Thank you Joel for putting it so clearly.

    1. Spot on Andrew: One or the other – love or not love, there is no sitting on the fence.

28. Flourishing, which does not happen overnight, is a beautiful journey of discover/uncover us and getting to realize that what we have thought we were, we were not but much more.

29. It’s so weird when we are not living from our innermost we can feel there is something missing but can all too easily get tricked that what is missing is outside of ourselves – and thus begins a futile and very ineffective search because we are searching for something in the wrong direction, outwards not inwards

30. “Diet no longer became a regime but a choice to be loving towards myself: exercise was no longer a ‘must do’ but a choice to be loving towards myself”. Such a gorgeous simplicity. Before anything, we can simply choose to be loving towards ourselves first, then everything else gets taken care of.

31. Joel, I got caught in the doing, and now from making everything about quality first I find I get so much more done than I did before, I now just love whatever it is that is presented for me to do next.

    1. Sally I got to feel what it is like to work or be in space recently I was blown away not just by how much got done but how time seemed to stand still. This for me was a glimpse that actually time is an illusion we get caught up in. If we were to choose space our bodies would not be in anxiousness and tension and the space that surrounds us just goes on and on expanding. How to live this as everyday life may not happen overnight but I now have a clear marker in my body of what it feels like.

32. Oh, the joy of realising that ‘the what is not you’ and ‘the what is you’ and that there is another way!

    1. Kathleenbaldwin the greatest understanding is to understand that we are just a conduit for energy to pass through. What energy passes through depends on the energy we have said yes too. Understanding that there are only two energies and that they do not mix, which is something that has not been taught for a very long time and Serge Benhayon is bringing this ancient teaching back to the world again. If we took the time to stop and consider this monumental teaching surely it would be a very humbling moment to realise that without energy we cannot exist, but more importantly what energy have we been choosing?

33. Big realisation when I realised that it was ok to make choices that did not fit in with everybody else and to go against the trend. Up until this point, it was as if I needed someones permission, but all along I only needed my own permission to make the changes.

34. What a super cool blog… stage 1 is enough to change every aspect of life. There is more to the world than just what we see, and everyone knows that. The difference comes when you start seeing the world and life with that knowing that there is much more that what is seen.

    1. I agree Heather, that is huge because we have somehow chosen and then been encouraged to forget that vital point to the equation.

35. “‘it’ is not what you do but the energy you do it in – even when you’re dealing with energy!” This realisation offers a choice and a responsibility for every move you make.

36. The realisation that we have a choice is an ice-breaker – one that cracks the casing of living in existence and allows us to live in livingness. In other words, knowing that we have the choice between the energy that runs through our body is extremely empowering and sets the tone for every detail of our life.

37. The process of becoming more of who we are is a fascinating one. Sometimes, in this process, we take deviations and become less of ourselves as we grab on to the knowledge of what we think we know, or reinterpret what we’ve learned as rules. But this is the key to it all: there are no rules, only the will to intently listen to the body and honour its messages. The mind can make up all kinds of stories about which energy it thinks its choosing, so as to not have to take responsibility for behaviours, but the body always knows what kind of energy we’re running it with.

38. This is huge Joel, being aware of what we are choosing, and so being able to choose things that are loving or that are not, instead of just thinking we are being loving, ‘Through this awareness, I had given myself true choice… to either choose things that are loving, or not.’

39. It is very surprising with the modalities I have learnt in the past that never once was I warned about the fact that it is not what you do but the energy you do it in, especially since I practiced Acupuncture, an energy based therapy.

    1. How we do something lorrainewellman makes a huge difference as an example of something as simple as tying the laces of our trainers. Do we just tie them while thinking of a thousand other things that we have to do, or the argument we had with someone, or do we build that inner relationship and tie the laces being totally present with ourselves. How we tie our laces is a great marker for where we are with ourselves.

40. Great writing and sharing Joel, I can relate to many of your realisations.

41. “I began to take responsibility for my life at an energetic level: I chose to ‘feel’ how, or what I was eating, drinking and doing at any given time.” Super cool. Feeling versus thinking the practical difference between the 2 energies and type of choices that can be made. “Through this awareness, I had given myself true choice… to either choose things that are loving, or not.” – the power within a choice.

42. “In the past the teachings were ‘everything is energy’, so just open yourself up to that energy.” That is scary and irresponsibly giving your power over to energy without discerning there is obviously an energy that is cunning, deceptive, corrupt, bias, untrustworthy … Universal Medicine teaches this principle to what energies there are and how to discern. I have come across no other organisation that does this.

    1. Rik I totally agree with you when you say
       ” Universal Medicine teaches this principle to what energies there are and how to discern. I have come across no other organisation that does this.”
       The huge plus to understanding energy is that we cannot be lied to because we can feel the energy that comes with the lie.

43. Loving choices rather than must dos or have tos are sustainable. It’s very powerful to change your way of thinking in this way.

44. Realising I had a choice in the way my life turned out was both the most rewarding and the most confronting. It meant I had to take action and it was all down to me, but with that there was a reluctance because I could no longer hide behind the comfortable excuses that it was other peoples fault, or it was just the way things were.

45. One of the most powerful things I have learnt from Universal Medicine presentations is the truth about the 2 different types of energy available to us, knowing this and choosing to live with this awareness is a game changer that allows us to discern and understand so much about life.

46. I can well relate to many years of searching, and then coming to something very different in meeting Serge Benhayon and the work of Universal Medicine. ‘Real change’ indeed began taking shape in the way I lived my life also, in a way that came from within. Yes, inspired by topics raised at presentations and workshops… but fundamentally, this change came about through having connected to a part of myself I came to realise I had long negated – the essential ‘spark’ of me, the part of me that has always known truth and will ever-know it. Thing was, before meeting Serge Benhayon, I had not come across anyone who walked, lived, breathed and embodied the truth of who we are.
    The power of another’s reflection, to inspire and reignite our own essential spark within, that IT may lead the way for us in our lives, is beyond compare…

47. Joel one of the big things that stands out for me which Universal Medicine has shown me is that no matter what, whether I want to accept it or not, I have always had a choice. And with that knowing that nothing is ever before me that i am already equipped to deal with and so cannot use the excuse that was too hard or life is too hard etc,, we are here to learn to return back to the love we are – no less.

48. “…..’it’ is not what you do but the energy you do it in …. ” Once this is accepted it changes completely how one perceives and understands the world as the cause of why something is the way it is different. This is a paradigm shift from the generally accepted viewpoint.

49. A great and in-depth reminder that everything is energy. Making life just about the human aspect is a reduction of everything that is, no wonder life does not make sense for many, of course it doesn’t when energy is left out of the equation. Our thoughts, movements, emotions, reactions, feelings, responses, sensations… everything is a by-product of energy first. This is a huge key to navigating and observing life.

50. There’s the understanding that everything is energy and then there’s the actual honouring and living of that in each moment. And that is very much what I am coming to understand now, and reading your description Joel, of the stages in this is a great reminder. It’s about stepping back and understanding that it’s energy at play always and the end bit the physical is the final part, for ourselves and what we see and feel in others. And with more deepening understanding of this I’m learning to make things less personal and it gives more space for me to actually see what is going on in life and there is so much more to it than the physical.

    1. Honouring and living this in each moment brings a deep and truthful understanding of life.

51. I loved reading your blog Joel, realising we have a choice sounds simple, and it is, we can then begin to truly understand what taking responsibility is. Not so much in what we choose to do, but the source of energy we have re-connected to that brings the quality of love in all we do. Things do change, for what has not been true has nothing to fuel it.

52. Joel, this blog is so simple and honest and delivers an understanding that many can greatly benefit from. The concept of actually responding to what we feel is the gift here. For we all feel what hurts and harms us, but knowing we can respond to these feelings and choose to care for ourselves with a deeply caring integrity is the beauty you offer.

53. Me, the missing piece in the puzzle – who would have thought it? I have to say, it is very true in my experience too. Once I returned to the connection with myself, my life started to feel very different, more whole, more complete….more me.

54. I love that through a series of awarenesses you have come to realize the power of taking responsibility for your choices and of being more of yourself in the world… with this as your foundation of how you move through life… any change can only be deeply positive.

55. It is a lot of work and very complicated to not be ourselves but somehow most of us seem to manage!

    1. I agree Nicola – huge amounts of efforts go into resisting who we are and the awareness we have about life and each other. Dropping the game and re-learning to simply be is a beautiful reawakening.

       1. Isn’t it the most peculiar thing ever that we have to learn how to be and isn’t it absurd that we avoid being ourselves when we are all so super gorgeous at essence.

56. I completely agree – I did try a few other ‘energy’ healing methods before Universal Medicine, and indeed there were some obvious blind spots that would have exposed themselves as questionable yet I didn’t see – like they all talked about everything being energy, yet there always were some things that were conveniently exempt from its ruling.

57. I love how simply and relatable you share your experiences Joel, especially the part about energy and what is behind feeling and thinking a certain way. It also shows why family and friends around you react or not when you start to make loving changes, as it depends on what energy they are using to live their lives, The energy that feeds unloving choices is not going to allow you to see that they are unloving and will offer many substitutes or even reasons why they are ‘good’ for you. This exposes what energy is running many clinical trials, that promote substances that are harmful for our bodies, as being good for us.

58. To understand that there are two types of energy to choose from is a quantum leap to live our life from, as without we are simply caught up in where life takes us, disempowered that there is actually a freedom to have.

59. Number 1 – I agree Joel, there is definitely something more that is missing from our present understanding of the human body. The reality that there is both an energetic health and a physical health is that missing piece of the puzzle and only when we accept this we will get the true appreciation of the bigger picture and understanding of the root of all disease and illness.

60. I agree Joel, to know that there is more to life and to consider the energetic aspect of life is a great start, but only when we learn to discern which type of energy runs our body can we actually start to make a choice for love to be the fuel in our life and nothing but love.

61. I too was aware that there was something else, energy behind what we did, but I also did not discern that there were different types of energy – ‘Love and everything else’. Universal Medicine was the first to present this universal truth to me. With this awareness and understanding I can now see how we just become puppets to the ‘everything else’ energy when we just open ourselves up to energy the way in which many alternative and complementary therapies do. If we do not make a choice to choose Love, then our default is to choose ‘not love’, so when I was training as an aromatherapist many years ago, and through all of my explorations and searchings in all things spiritual, I thought I was doing ‘good’ by being aware of and using energy, but in fact what I was doing was calling in the ‘what is not love’ and further cementing myself and others into a world that is not aware that we have a choice.

62. A great last line “Either way, change, real change, was taking place.” That for me sums up the differences between my years of exploring spirituality, New Age, personal development etc, because I had momentary improvements then back into the same emotion, energy and cycle again. In fact, after a decade or more of exploring not only did I feel back at square one, I felt even worse. Coming to Universal Medicine is like finding the real deal because real, lasting and very joyful change takes place.

63. Without this marker of love in our body we are actually tossed about by the energies running through us without having a real say in it. To develop an awareness of the 2 types of energy available to choose and allow to govern our every move is crucial and at the core of the teachings of Serge Benhayon, taught from the first lesson onwards. Restoring true sense of love, harmony and truth means to let go of what is not of that same quality.

64. A few years ago now I practiced a range of complementary therapies. Discussing and learning about energy was part of what we learned. But it was all concept and I have to say I never truly grasped it. It all seemed out their somewhere. Learning that there was an energy that was love and an energy that was not love is something that made a lot of sense, very practical and very liveable and most importantly we make the choice – love or not love. Looking forward to the next instalment…

65. Very cool blog Joel – showing exactly that our choices, life, is in our hands and that we have the power to change it, no one else for us. We are here to come back and re-unite to our one and only Soul and life from there best capable as we had done before (previous lifes, ancient times). There is no such thing as outer search and or need once the true inner-search has begun…

66. I also studied other energetic modalities and meditations before I discovered Universal Medicine. Yes, we got to play with energy and there was at times a wow factor, but never did they make it clear that there were only two energies to play with! One energy is love, which allows me to be me. The other is not love, which actually plays with me, making me think, act and speak in any way other than being the real me.

67. Joel, you have once again captured so beautifully the very ordinary yet profound path of finding your way back to your true self again. I like the way you appreciated what your parents had offered in the way of understanding there is more to life than meets the eye. Although there wasn’t an understanding that everything is energy in my home, God, reincarnation, spirits etc were accepted and openly discussed as fact. I feel this put me in good stead to at least be open to greater possibilities.

68. Finding out that there are two sources of energy changed my life completely. It is an ongoing learning discerning the energy I am in as I can so easily deceive myself and usually find this out when I am drained by the ‘doing’ having left the ‘being’ behind by one little override of a message my body has sent me that I have left in the inbox unopened! All a work in progress.

69. For me this insight was a great realization: “. . . ‘it’ is not what you do but the energy you do it in . . . ” Since I got this deeper understanding I know that I am the only one who is responsible for my life – how beautiful is that!

70. “Diet no longer became a regime but a choice to be loving towards myself”….this is true what you write here Joel. And very profound and could put the multi billion weight loss industry on its head if more people lived like this. It is truly the only ‘diet’ that truly works – the more loving towards ourselves we are, the less harm we want to do with ourselves and that includes eating foods that do not support our body.

71. “This was when friends and family started to notice I was changing. Some were happy for me to learn this stuff – but not if it meant I would stop drinking alcohol etc. Some felt the change and wanted to know more, others drifted off. Either way, change, real change, was taking place.” It amazes me how people become concerned when we make more loving choices in our lives and yet see nothing wrong with excessive consumption of alcohol, which in truth is a poison to the body.

72. Universal Medicine Modalities allows us to connect to that innate love within all of us and to let go and understand that we are not our patterns or abusive behaviours as they are just the result of the imposition of the world that is asking us to look for who we are outside of ourselves never looking within at the glory that we already are.

73. I too studied Natural Therapies and was caught up in the illusion that I had found the answer not knowing that there was so much more to life than what we see, understanding that there are two different sources of energy to choose from allowed me to discern and feel for myself the truth of what I was involved in and to let go and unlearn that which was not from a true nature.

74. This is very straight to the point Joel, this is what it’s about it is about knowing everything is energy and thus everything is because of energy, and that we have a conscious choice of what energy we use to live with. That one that keeps us in the struggle of life or the one that makes is truly see what life is about, abundant beauty in everything, reflected in that what we feel within.

75. It’s often thought that becoming more of our selves is a doing activity, of improving ones life. I love how this article makes it about deepening our awareness and going inwards to discover what we need to support ourselves, based on feelings within and not on what others are doing or what is seen and analysed from the outside.

76. Understanding that there are 2 types of energy is a complete revelation, absolutely life-transforming and is only one of the many life-transforming teachings that Serge Benhayon presents. To know that we have a choice as to which energy we choose puts the ball back into our court and as a result is so empowering. Not only that it enriches life because we are no longer at the mercy of things or victims of circumstances and this brings a whole new dimension to life.

77. To realise that we have a choice in everything we do and then take the responsibility that this entails is a huge step and something that needs to be deeply honoured and appreciated.

78. Beginning to grasp that everything is energy and that the choices we make can either allow the energy of love to flow through us or the energy of all that is not love becomes the default energy gives us the responsibility for how we choose to live. The more we live love the more love there is to live in every movement we make.

79. To be able to feel changes in our bodies from an increase of sensitivity so that our choice of energy is very clearly reflected in them, is the true instrument of change. We can not identify ourselves as being better and hold some idealised goal of getting anywhere because as we become more sensitivity we see more layers that are not truly who we are and so remain humble and real about what life is about.

80. It is simple – the choice to breath our own breath, to be present in all we do and allow love to weave it’s magic through us. I have tried and attended many workshops where alternative therapies were the focus and none of these brought the clear understanding that everything is energy and therefore everything is because of energy and it is the energy we choose to hold and live everyday that is what life is all about. Serge Benhayon was the first person to present this and to support me to claim all that I am as an amazing Human being and to make this my way in life. So simple yet so profound. A Beautiful, clearly articulated movement into the truth – thank you Joel.

81. ‘ ‘it’ is not what you do but the energy you do it in’ and yet we gear ourselves up to be all about the doing rather than the how of what we’re doing. But it’s a palpable thing, this phenomenon. You only need to spend a few moments on a motorway to be able to feel the impact of how different drivers are driving – the maniac, the slow-coach, the cautious one. Everything can be felt, because everything is energy. Once we choose to begin to take responsibility for our relationship with energy, then true change can follow.

82. There is always a choice and our choices are then magnified by our movements. It gets down to the question – What do I want to magnify around me, love or what is not love?

    1. This concept of magnification is a big one to understand.. the fact that not just what we do but how we do it, becomes amplification, that makes the next choice easier or harder (whatever it is).

83. Great comment Brendan, I find it extremely empowering to know I do have a choice. In the past when I thought I didn’t have a choice in life, I realise that they were times when I had completely given my power away.

84. I love your blog Joel. Brilliant realisations, inspiring and very relatable the way you’ve presented. I too am in the process of cleaning up my mess and learning to take responsibility.

85. Joel I love the way you write, an easy to read step by step account of how you came to realise that there is another way of living, I’m looking forward to reading part 2.

86. Change is coming 😛

    1. I love change, I said bring it on and celebrate change, the world is craving it, humanity needs it and we all are being pulled along regardless, it’s inevitable.

87. The knowing of energy and the choice we have to be love is a life changing lesson, I can feel this will never leave me and of great support to be myself the rest of my life. It isn’t always easy but well worth the effort, honesty is the key.

88. Thank you for your thought provoking blog Joel. “I began to realise this personal responsibility was not about removing myself from life and making myself so fragile I couldn’t interact with the world, but rather about how to be MORE of me in every moment.” This is something I realise I have a tendency to want to do believing that I can’t deal with whatever life presents at times so as you say here the key is to be more of me in every moment and also to trust myself in those moments.

89. Love this account of your unfolding Joel, and particularly your realisation you were in the process of learning how to be MORE of yourself in every moment by making different choices. For me that approach breaks the pattern of trying to always fix myself, which has a completely different energy behind it.

90. ‘I began to realise this personal responsibility was not about removing myself from life and making myself so fragile I couldn’t interact with the world, but rather about how to be MORE of me in every moment.’ That’s what I love about the teachings of Serge Benhayon it is never about removing ourself from life but completely the opposite, we have the responsibility to be in the world with everything that we are. I never knew it could be a joy to live in this way, knowing that life is about energy first and how we can choose love or not love.

91. Thanks Joel for sharing the beginnings on your life path which I can relate to in many ways. What a shame that we aren’t taught from birth that life is about re-connecting back to who we truly are and that we are all on this journey but that our choices will determine how rough or smooth our travels are.

92. I really enjoyed reading this Joel L and the blossoming Love and may I say Joy at life and for yourself. Accepting that everything is energy and that everything is as a result of energy (Serge Benhayon) is huge as it does place a greater responsibility on us as to how we live our lives. I have accepted loveless behaviour in myself and from others for so long but as I open up to truly feeling and acknowledging the energy behind things it is clear that there really are only two types of energy – that which is from Love and that which is not from Love. If we are tuned into our bodies and we’re honest – our bodies’ tell us very clearly which is which.

93. Thank you Joel, for pointing out so simple, clearly and with so much love the unfoldment of becoming your true self again and living a life of truth and love.

94. I really liked reading this blog because what you describe has been so absolutely life-changing for me. I have been so lost in my life before I learned to understand life energetically through Universal Medicine and suddenly everything began to make sense and I feel so much more complete now!

95. Joel I like this line ‘love’ it just helped me feel the consequence of my choices. We are forever love and no matter how hard we try to escape it we can’t. We blame love for many things, rejection, being dumped, family stuff and so on, but it is not love doing this to us, it’s us being not who we truly are – love. When you begin to connect to your self love your world begins to change and you start to open up just like a beautiful flower.

96. Thank you for sharing Joel this Part 1 of the different stages of becoming you i’m looking forward to reading Part 2.
    “Strangely, the more of these self-loving choices I made, the more I got done.” This is so true and it just shows that our first responsibility is the choice of which energy we are in and the rest will gracefully follow.

97. Often once we get a sense that there is more at play than the physical, we can get overwhelmed as it seems we are immediately hit with an onslaught of energy that we then have to discern. But this is not so. Firstly, there is no instant onslaught but more a gradual awareness of the constant bombardment of energy that is forever passing through us. Secondly, there is not a vast array of different energies – there is only love and what is not.

98. Thankyou Joel, this is all very well expressed and a joy to read as per usual. I love the revelation in this line: ‘‘it’ is not what you do but the energy you do it in’. There is a bit of a forehead slap here…for how many of us devote the best part of our lives getting a good amount of ‘things done’ so that we can feel ‘successful’ and ‘worthy’, without pausing for a second to feel and thus discern if the moment that impulsed the movement contained love or not. For if it did not, then all those ‘wondrous’ things that followed thereafter were not so wondrous at all, for they were void of love. Ouch.

99. I love this part that you shared Joel, “I used the different esoteric modalities (Esoteric Healing, Chakra-puncture, Esoteric Massage etc.) to help me ‘clean up’ the mess of less supportive choices and build this personal responsibility.” It just puts things into perspective, that it is not about beating yourself up but just about accepting the unsupportive choices, taking responsibility for the consequences of these and learning to choose something different.

100. Like you Joel I was one of those people that were at ease with the fact of energy and willing to accept that energy could flow and get stuck and stagnate etc.. I was also rather vague and willing to glaze over this without some of the most simple and obvious considerations such as where did the energy behind negative emotions and all of the dark things in the world come from. I was certainly living in an unquestioning fog while believing I was questioning. The shift in my diet and gentle breath meditation combined with the presentations on energetic science by Serge Benhayon have all helped beyond measure to clearly understand there are two energies and the difference can be known through clarity of feeling (clairsentience).

101. All very important stages thus far Joel, 1, 2 and 3. I notice stage 3 can be a tricky one, as an old way of being is tossed out for a loving way can bring up big resistance in people who would still like to continue with their old way, as is their right of course. The word acceptance comes to mind, for all parties.

     1. That is so true, Suzanne! There are people I know who do not accept that I am a student of Universal Medicine and are very suspicious about all my changes. They want me to stay with the arrangements we were in to be able to keep their comfort. I find it difficult to accept their reactions to my choices as I can feel that they are often born of jealousy.

102. Thank you for sharing your journey to becoming you Joel is such a relatable way and I love how it all comes down to choosing to be responsible about the energy you are in and the choices that then flow from that. So simple but so profound.

103. I love this suggestion, it was a piece of the puzzle for me when I heard Serge Benhayon talk about this subject for the first time “‘it’ is not what you do but the energy you do it in – even when you’re dealing with energy!” I felt it was challenging but only because it asked a question of me, ‘are you willing to take responsibility for yourself and the energy that you live with out into the world?’ It also felt deeply healing and empowering to know that I can choose how I respond and live in the world regardless of what is occurring around me.

     1. This is so true Samatha, the level of responsibility available for us to take can be very daunting for some and a revelation for those that choose it. It can be a bottomless pit, where we keep looking for an end point or a huge sense of expansion as we start to realise we don’t have any boundaries to who we truly are.

104. What a great idea Joel, to revise and share the stages for us all to reflect on and learn from.
     I had been living with the knowing and practice of energy as a practitioner of energetic based bodywork (shiatsu, oriental, thai and Indian massage) and of yoga practice. Coming to Universal Medicine felt like a huge shift in responsibility. I was instantly shown the depth of understanding and clarity to which I was simply not accessing. There was a huge amount of letting go to be done before I could begin building a true life. I think my family, friends and practitioners at my clinic thought everything was falling apart for me 😉 The true change is starting to shine through now (after 4.5 years).

105. The choice is love. Love supports and sustains. Love is always true. The choice is clear.

106. The fact about the two energies – love, and everything else – was never taught at schools or by any teachers/presenters that I had come across before Universal Medicine. How could it be possible to make a conscious choice without knowing this? This realisation helped me understand the way we have ended up with the state of the world we are currently living now.

107. The choice truly is that simple: “love or everything else”

108. Awesome Joel. The different esoteric modalities are a great support for the clean up of less supportive choices. Getting rid of the mess helps make room for the good stuff.

109. Knowing that there are two different energies from which we can choose, was the biggest and most freeing revelation I had. It was Serge Benhayon who presented this and who offered me a real choice after a long search.

     1. Thanks felix for pointing out that it’s really so simple- two different choices. Love or not love.

     2. Same for me Felixschumacher8, understanding that there are 2 forms of energy that we can choose to run with was a massive revelation for me too.

110. Joel, I love how you’ve broken down your journey in raising your expanding awareness into stages. I feel I can relate to much of what you’ve said here, and it’s interesting how some people just turn away when you decide to choose love above all else.

111. I can remember the same reactions from family and friends when, after attending a few workshops with Serge Benhayon, I began to make changes in my life. “Some were happy for me to learn this stuff – but not if it meant I would stop drinking alcohol etc. Some felt the change and wanted to know more, others drifted off.” I think they all were sure it was another passing phase, like my New Age exploration, but eventually they began to realise that this time something was different – and that was the me who was emerging from the many layers of protection, hardness, lack of love, etc that I had built around me over many years, to reveal someone who began to look after herself by making loving choices, whose well being began to improve immeasurably and who was finally beginning to discover a renewed joy of life.

112. ‘It’ is not what you do but the energy you do it in – even when you’re dealing with energy!
     This truth just makes me stop time after time again. Applies to every area of my life.

113. Great sharing Joel, I love how you make besoming aware all those practical steps. Looking forward to the next steps!!

114. How many of us have had the sense there is more than just what the outside picture shows us in life. The flicker inside that stays alit till the moment it is fed, and the flame begins to grow. Even at times I have doubted, I love that today I know my flame cannot be extinguished. It has been all as a consequence of my following that call inside that knew there was more…and more..and more… Joel your strokes hold the touch of the divine.

115. “Through this awareness, I had given myself true choice… to either choose things that are loving, or not.” This sentence simplifies everything Joel, everything we think, do and say is either loving or not loving according to our choices. I really appreciate the way you clearly outline your path of awareness, and the transformational changes you have made. Onto part two!

116. Great article Joel – you clearly articulate the difference between being aware of energy and knowing that there are two types of energy. Like you, before I really came to grips with this fact being aware of energy didn’t not help with understanding the way life is, or why energetic modalities aren’t all equal in what they deliver.

117. ”There are always more areas of my life I can bring more love to, but at the end of the day the ‘love’ I was feeling never said ‘do this’ or ‘do that’, it just helped me feel the consequence of my choices”. This sentence is beautiful and so true.

118. Hi Joel, I don’t think I’ve come across another blog that outlines the practicalities of the energy behind everything and loving choices so clearly. Even though I have some understanding of this topic, your writing has given me such clarity in the simplest of ways. Can’t wait for part 2!

119. I love what you share Joel, it reminds me of the first time I experienced the Gentle Breath Meditation and the quality and stillness I felt within was amazing. To know about energy is simply not enough, we need to discern if the energy is from ‘love’ or not – this had such a profound impact on my life knowing this. Look forward to Part 2!

     1. The quality of stillness in the gentle breath meditation is a great measure for what is loving in my life.

120. Another awesome blog Joel, it’s true that love never tells us what to do but just brings awareness to the choices we are making should we choose to listen.

121. So many people are willing to consider that there is energy, and that this energy can be used for healing, but how many are willing to discern that there is a quality to that energy? And how important is it that we develop a way of discerning that quality? That is why step 2 is so important and why the gentle breath is such a crucial tool in our development…back to who we truly are.

     1. Well said Rachel for quality is everything in the process of returning back to who we truly are.

122. Like you Joel, I had studied and practiced modalities that spoke of energy, but none that made as much sense as what Serge Benhayon presents and in such a practical everyday way. Looking forward to part 2

123. this is great, I can imagine you in the process of doing this. It’s awesome to feel the commitment you have brought to your life to live being aware of what is energetically happening and not just what is physically happening, understanding both would be very supportive. Now onto to stage 2 of this blog… tell me more!

124. Joel, I love how you’re presented your journey, it’s so clear and simple and I laughed out loud at the truth of your statement ‘‘it’ is not what you do but the energy you do it in – even when you’re dealing with energy!’ – the thing is as you note, and I and many others have experienced many others talk about energy but don’t make the clear distinction between energy, love or not, and the fact that knowing energy is one thing, but actively living and choosing based on that is another. Something I’m learning now daily. And yes it really is not about retreating from the world, it’s about being more truly us in it.

125. Amazing Joel I was curious to read your blog because to have 6 stages to be me was a wonderful invitation for me. I was immediately drawn to the following words:”‘it’ is not what you do but the energy you do it in . . . !” So this means it is more important how I am when I am doing things and not achieving them!!!! That is great and it feels also not so draining for me – I am a champion in achieving things and so I will give it a go to find out if I am less drained when I am more aware of how I do things.

126. How to be more of ME in every moment, great reminder Joel. And isn’t it amazing to realize there is always more of us in every moment…..if we choose so.

127. You’ve presented some great points Joel. Especially the part where focussing on energy is only the beginning… Realising that everything is energy opens up a lot and I, personally, have begun to see things a lot differently and realise that things don’t just ‘happen’ but are a result of a choice I’ve made.

128. Joel thank you for another thought provoking article. I can relate in the understanding that there is choice in the energy of love and everything that is not love. This has been a game changer for me as it has been for you.

129. Lovely to read about your journey and the changes you experienced. Looking forward to the next three stages.

130. Beautiful journey Joel. I just love this type of accounts of how things change in someone’s life.

131. Thanks for sharing the first 3 stages of change in this blog Joel! It wasn’t until I was in my 20’s that I came across the concept that there was an energetic component to life. When I did, it was a no brainer, it was like ‘of course, that makes so much sense about everything I always feel’. Learning that then everything is because of energy also resulted in me following the same step 3 as you – choices, aka responsibility. There’s no one left to blame for anything when you fully understand steps 1 & 2. And the change and ensuing joy that comes from making those choices make it so worthwhile.

     1. I experienced the same process Brooke, only for me this awareness didn’t come until my mid 40’s. Like you, understanding about energy and that there were only 2 sources of this energy made absolute sense, and in filling in all the blanks of everything I’d been looking for previously in an attempt to explain my life. In fact, understanding that “everything is energy and everything is because of energy” (Serge Benhayon) is the ‘only’ thing that makes sense of ‘everything’.

132. Beautiful Joel, life is all about energy, a fact that is clearer to me each and everyday and the responsibility we have with every choice we make

133. It is always so great to read about other student’s journey. Looking forward to reading Part 2.

134. What you said about the love never telling you what to do but just helping you to feel the consequences of your choices is just gorgeous… and then the responsibility lies with us – as you said, we can then either choose things that are loving or not…it really is that simple.

135. We are only up to step 3 and I can feel that each of these steps is absolutely transformational on their own let alone used in conjunction with each other. Thank you Joel.

136. Beautifully and clearly expressed Joel. I can relate to much of what you have shared. I love how you say this – ‘I began to realise this personal responsibility was not about removing myself from life and making myself so fragile I couldn’t interact with the world, but rather about how to be MORE of me in every moment.’ Super powerful – thank you. I look forward to reading ‘Part Two’.

137. I knew that feeling too Joel, of searching for that “something” to make sense of it all. Learning about energy has been huge. I loved the way you described that the answer was not to find an escape from the world, but to come back in with more of the whole you. Thank you.

138. I first heard Serge Benhayon sharing about ten years ago that “if everything is energy, everything is because of energy”. I too found it revelatory and gained many understandings and still the unfolding continues. Just last week, I glimpsed a whole new level of understanding in relation to what those few words mean to me and to everyday life. Those few words in themselves are enough for a life time of evolution and then to consider that there are well over 1,000 hours of audio recordings of Serge speaking and more happening all the time – the mind boggles and the heart sings.

139. Awesome analysis of the true seeming difficulties of life, and the simplicity you founded.

140. Joel thank you for your straightforward and simply expressed blog!

141. Your words Joel: “it’ is not what you do but the energy you do it in” – is the ultimate key here that unlocks everything and offers a different way to living life. And that the energy ‘we do it in’, is either one 2 types – love, or non-love. Simple. Invaluable.

142. Awesome to feel this Joel and I look forward to reading part 2!

143. There are always more areas of my life I can bring more love to, but at the end of the day the ‘love’ I was feeling never said ‘do this or do that’, it just helped me feel the consequence of my choices. Exactly, and it is your choice to listen to the consequences or not.

144. So cool Joel! Loving the breakdown of your process!

145. Joel I appreciate this simple step approach to developing more awareness. Beautifully and simply put, reflecting back to people the importance of appreciating where they were and where they are now.

146. It is so clear and simple how you have written out the steps and I can relate to all. It is also beautiful to look back at the steps and appreciate the unfoldments.

147. Joel, you so simply expressed that it is just a choice, and to be responsible for the choices we make.

148. A very real and tangible perspective of learning how to build a relationship with yourself Joel. I can’t wait for the rest of the steps.

149. Thanks Joel.
     Contrary to you, I had not been searching for “something” very much, but always felt that something was not right or was missing from the way in which I lived.
     Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine enabled me to find the answer myself. What was missing from my life was me.
     The journey back to myself since then has brought amazing changes and has made me connect to myself, life and other people again. And this journey will probably continue forever :o)

     1. I have loved reading the first 3 steps Joel. Looking forward to reading the next 3. With all the modalities I have studied (and there have been a few), I was never asked to consider what type of energy. All energies were simply lumped into being energy. A very important point that I first learnt from Universal Medicine was that there are 2 types of energy and it is for us to discern which we are aligning to.

150. “I began to realise this personal responsibility was not about removing myself from life and making myself so fragile I couldn’t interact with the world, but rather about how to be MORE of me in every moment.” Joel – this is a golden reminder for me to take complete responsibility for the type of ‘me’ I bring to all my interactions with others today.

151. Hearing it for the 100st time it still can sink in deeper and deeper, that everything is energy and because of energy – either love over anything else. Bringing it back to the basis of it all to discern my thoughts and actions is so much simpler than to figure out the otherwise complexities of life that usually just spin around themselves. I let it sink in deeper.

152. “There’s love, – and everything else”. No in between. Thank you for an inspirational blog, Joel – it confirms that we all have choices all of the time – to what energy we align to. It puts responsibility on a whole new level. No excuses, really.

153. Beautiful as always Joel. I love the part at the end where you talk about that what love supports is bringing more of you to the world, not telling you what to do or not to do. I’m constantly reminding myself and my son that love is always with us, we only need choose to allow ourselves to feel it, and share it. It has been so freeing to discover through Universal Medicine that the essence of me is already within, the love is already there, and with gentle steps I’ve been able to, and continue to, let go of the sadness, self-loathing and lack of self-worth that’s been covering it up for many years.

154. Just like you Joel, I was also looking for something for years and years and I can very much relate to all the stages you have given us already of becoming me again, looking forward reading the next stages.

155. This is beautifully simple, thank you Joel for giving this simple insight of how we can become ourselves again.

156. A beautiful concise expression, with real clarity….thank you Joel, this will be an invaluable support to many of us, on our return journey to our true selves.

157. Brilliantly written Joel. I too got an understanding from Serge Benhayon about the 2 energies in life and that everything comes from one or the other, love or not love. It has brought a whole new way of viewing life and to live from.

158. I love this Joel. Your explanation of the different energies and how it gives true freedom choice is very, clear, simple and direct.

159. You have made it so clear, Joel, about the difference between just thinking of energy as one energy, and feeling that energy comes in the form of two energies.That allows us to have choice, and so free-will. I just wish some theologians would read your blog! All the councils of the churches throughout the ages have debated free-will versus predestination, becoming more and more complex in their arguments, and here you have expressed it so simply in a nutshell.

160. Joel, reading this is magic, thank you. I’ve heard everything is energy many times and know that as you say the energy behind anger is very different to that behind joy for instance. It really is love or not, but when you talk about taking responsibility for the energy we choose, something in that stopped me, I realised that while I’m more aware of the energy I choose, often I will fall into an energy and do the subsequent action falling out of that with the feeling I have no choice; true to a point, but I’ve been staying with the physical choices I’m making and their consequences and not always looking back at the energetic choices I’ve made which led to those, and interestingly enough these have been non-loving choices. It’s the energy behind the choices which is key, and at any moment we can change that energy if we choose. Great to catch and feel and something for me to observe in my day to day life.

     1. ‘It’s the energy behind the choices which is key, and at any moment we can change that energy if we choose.’ Thank you Monica and I agree it’s something to be observant about in my day to day life and feel where I am at with it.

161. Top Part 1 Joel, when I first came to a presentation by Serge Benhayon and he talked about ‘everything is energy and therefore everything is because of energy’, I had no idea of the vast implications of those words. Knowing that everything I did, say or think had two different energies behind them, (as you say, love and everything else), it made me realise that I have a great responsibility in my choices. From there, like you, I was able to start making choices that truly supported me and to start to be the real ‘me’.

     1. I agree Tim, is is a concept that is so easily agreed to but then to live its truth, life gets turned upside down and inside out and then you find upside down and inside out is the truth of life and it was how I lived that was actually back to front.

162. “If I push myself at work to ‘get it done’, I can feel the drain of this, but in the past I would cover up that drain with coffee or sugar.” Yes, Joel, I did the same, it’s great to appreciate how far we have come.

163. Love the first three stages which reflect so much of what I experienced, so onto stage 4!

164. I agree Joel it was a complete revelation to me too that there might be more than one type of energy and that we just might have a choice or a say in what energy we allowed to enter and flow through our bodies. Previously I had just thought things happened to me and I did not have a choice in everything. This choice is the ultimate responsibility and the ultimate self – empowerment.

165. I love the fact that the things that I perceived as negative, are the things which bring healing when I look at them closer i.e my right shoulder started to hurt when I was 16 at my very first job and continued most days, until I learnt through Universal Medicine how I harden my body in reaction or by pushing – I blamed work over and over but my body was showing me all along that, it was how I was at work and not the work itself.

166. Universal Medicine have helped me to to be much more aware and discerning of different types of energy and that just because something calls itself energy-based doesn’t mean it is of a healing energy… Thanks Joel, I’m off to read part 2.

167. Joel I love the point about the fact we have a choice – it seems so simple but in fact it was never clearly presented to me as I grew up that everything in my life, in everything I felt and did or did not do: I had a choice. This meant I had little to no self responsibility previously for my actions and behaviours. I was just getting carried along with everyone else and doing what everyone else did, until I learnt through Universal Medicine that every single thing in our lives we have chosen and we always have the choice of what is next. Then I could begin to stand up and say no to things I began to see were not loving or supportive, and yes to things that were. So simple – yet so revelatory.

168. It is such a common theme to look for ‘something’. I’ve noticed so many of us have this feeling that life isn’t ‘it’, that there is ‘something else’ but don’t know what, or what they have just doesn’t quite explain it. Getting to know myself and being able to accept that I am actually ‘it’, and that there is nothing outside of me to look for, is a big revelation but feels normal – like I always knew that. The ‘revelation’ is so simply presented by Universal Medicine, everything is energy, including ourselves, we just have to get back to the ‘real me’ by making everyday loving choices. It’s great to read the practical processes you go through and continue to go through.

169. Often my mind has made the word ‘responsibility’ into something to avoid or that it is this huge, mountainous subject. As I start to feel more I am becoming aware of just how much I avoid it when really, as you have so brilliantly presented, it is just a simple case of choosing to feel more me in everyday life. Thank you.

170. Thank you Joel. Your analysis is very interesting and also fun. The fact that your parents were not “closed off” to the idea of feeling as well as seeing, is, I think significant.

171. Thanks Joel, I can certainly relate to steps 1-3 and look forward to reading the rest. This account of your deepening awareness about energy and realisation of the choice we have in every moment, is really accessible for anyone to read.

172. I love this Joel. You write with a profound wisdom and sense of responsibility but it’s playful and light at the same time! Welcome home – coming back to the real you.

173. Joel, I love this, the way you lay it out so clearly and how you write and describe it. As you say there are 2 energies, love and everything else, and then it’s about what I choose and knowing that I have a choice. Fantastic piece.

174. Great writing and sharing Joel, I can relate to many of your realisations.

175. Thanks Joel for the journey so far, I can relate to your experiences and has brought back the ‘you have changed’ comments from people around me. The change in me was slow but steady. I was on the bus back to me and all the others saw was me on a bus and watched me driving by.

176. I love this blog Joel, easy and simple to read. Everything you have written I can relate too and I look forward to part 2.

177. Love it Joel. I am also looking forward to the next posting. You could have eked this out as a six part blog series with a hook at the end of each part!

178. I love the way you write Joel, I feel that although it is about your life it could also be about mine, – that my life may not have gone the same way as yours, but that my thoughts and feelings of what was happening in my life were very similar. The questioning, the seeking, the giving up, to then recognising that it comes down to me and the choices that I make. Like Judy I can’t wait to read part 2.

179. Beautifully laid out Joel – I can relate to this very much. Thank you.

180. This is a great account of what many of us have experienced in some form or another, Joel. I’m looking forward to stages 4, 5 and 6.

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